Folk-tales of the Eastern Core

Compilation of folktales from the Eastern Core; written by Magnus Wolfsbane.

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They still tell stories here of the Iron Bull, who appears from the deep plains when the land is befouled by blood or filth or fire to wreak a horrible vengeance on those who pollute the land. They say that he is stronger than the strongest horse, and that a sword or a spear employed against him will turn again and strike its owner down; they say also that his breath turns wheat or wood to chalk and flesh to stone. I was shown what might, with some imagination, be thought a human figure carved in stone and told in all seriousness that it had once been a particularly wicked quarryman, who fouled the river with tailings from his pit; the Iron Bull came and turned him into one of his own stones, and the quarry he worked lies overgrown and unused to this day.